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Originally Posted by wraggster

The PSN outage has caused another (online) casualty: the PlayStation Blog's comment system. Commenters are required to sign in using their PlayStation Network accounts, which, of course, are inaccessible. Only those who signed in before the PSN went down are able to comment.

The European PS Blog warns that the cookies on comment account logins expire after a week, which means that even those lucky enough to

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Before Portal 2 there was Portal, and before Portal there was Super Mario Bros. Bring these together and you get a mushroom-chomping Italian plumber ruling the 2D world -- outside the cold confines of Aperture Science -- with the infamous Portal gun. The next logical step? Turn this into a first-person game. Go on, Reggie, make it happen.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/28/s...monster-video/

Originally Posted by wraggster

A Kinect-enabled version of Fruit Ninja is on its way to Xbox 360, if a new ratings board listing is to be believed.

As spotted by Siliconera, Korea's Game Ratings Board has classified something called Fruit Ninja Kinect.
For those unfamiliar with the original game, it's a simple smartphone title that focusses on slicing up fruit by swiping across the touch screen.
Despite receiving a bit of a hammering from Eurogamer's Kristan Reed when it was released last year, the Halfbrick-developed

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Driver: San Francisco leaves the garage on 2nd September for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

That's a few days after its 30th August US launch.
First announced back in June last year, the game has been delayed a number of times. However, it seems we'll now finally get to see if Newcastle-based developer Ubisoft Reflections has successfully managed to revive the flaggingfranchise.
Eurogamer's Christian Donlan went hands-on with the game

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The latest patch for Fallout: New Vegas is reportedly causing some Xbox 360 users serious problems.

According to a number of posts on the game'sofficial forum, many players have been unable to load saved games since installing update 1.3 this morning, or are experiencing regular system crashes.
"Great, get the day off, settled down in front of the Xbox to play New Vegas and guess what, it freezes. Thanks Bethesda!" wrote one poster.
"As with everyone else,

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